I was off and running with what I thought was a great solution to my backup problem. Unfortunately, I didn't consider reboot.

My "Virtual Drive" was assigned drive "D". Following a Windows update and reboot last night, Drive D is no longer visible. My Storage Spaces is comprised of 2 8TB external drives.

Is there a way to recover from this without starting over? And why would anyone even use this feature if it won't survive a reboot?

Ideas anyone?

If the USB Flash Drive is big enough, can you partition it? Example, make a USB bootable, have a folder with documents etc?

I recently purchased 2 of Seagate's newer releases - Seagate Expandable 8tb external drives to back up my media. I was using Amazon Drive, backing up to the cloud but their prices increased by a factor of almost 10 so I started looking for alternatives.

My Backup software (iDrive) only looks at one drive at a time which my media won't fit on so I'm looking for a "Volume" solution where you can group multiple backup drives but have it "appear" to Windows 10 as only one drive.

That brought me to the subject of "Spanning" drives. A term I was completely unfamiliar with, but from it's description, sounded exactly like what I was looking for so I thought I'd give it a try.

Using Disk Manager:
Step 1 in the process is to delete the existing volume.
Step 2 in the process is to right-click on the volume and select "Spanning".
Step 3 in the process is to select the drive(s) you want to include.
Step 4 you are presented with a screen informing you are about to convert your discs to "Dynamic". It's not optional. You either convert or cancel the process, so I selected to continue.

I then received a message the process failed. "Devices don't support this action" or something along those lines.

From that point on, my drives became inoperable. Device Manager could see them but Disc Manager could not. Nothing I tried would bring them back into Disc Manager. Even using the Cmd line approach, they were not identified.

I have 2 new drives coming later in the week but for …

The drive has a System reserved partition of 100 MB and the other partition that has the Windows operating system.

Do you mark the system reserved partition as the boot partition or the partition that actually has the OS?

How do you set these parameters on an OS drive w a reserve partition.

System, Active, Boot, Primary

Right now when I try to boot off of it, it complains it cannot find winloader.exe.

Thanks so much,

Steve

My Azure backup has failed on one of my Servers - Main File Server

Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent was unable to create a snapshot of the selected volume. Please try the operation again. If the issue persists, please contact Microsoft support. (0x186C2)      

I am able to manually create a Volume Shadow Copy
Volume Shadow Copies are working automatically and correctly
Shadow Copies are set to "No Limit"
The Server has had a couple of reboots

We recently took a new client that uses Novell Netware 4.1 and we want to make full backups of their system as it has a lot of custom made programs that are not able to be replaced directly. What is the best way to get full backups of the entire system?

Hi every one:

i have the following tapes in tsm and i need to recover space to make scratch tapes. please can you help me with this. im out of  new scratch tapes to load. thanks in advance,

BTSM_IBM       GO1628L5        Private                             Data          4,126
BTSM_IBM       GO1629L5        Private                             DbBackup      4,119
BTSM_IBM       GO1630L5        Private                             Data          4,123
BTSM_IBM       GO1631L5        Private                             Data          4,127
BTSM_IBM       GO1632L5        Private                             DbBackup      4,120
BTSM_IBM       GO1636L5        Private                                           4,133
BTSM_IBM       GO1638L5        Private                                           4,138
BTSM_IBM       GO1639L5        Private                                           4,134
BTSM_IBM       GO1643L5        Private                             Data          4,131
BTSM_IBM       GO1644L5        Private                             Data          4,140
BTSM_IBM       GO1655L5        Private                             Data          4,106
BTSM_IBM       GO1656L5        Private                             Data          4,113
BTSM_IBM       GO1657L5        Private                             Data          4,109
BTSM_IBM       GO1660L5        Private                             DbBackup      4,104
BTSM_IBM       GO1663L5        Private                             …

Hi everyone.
                        i have a recursive error on a daily backup.

06/23/2017 13:24:25 ANS5216E Could not establish a TCP/IP connection with address 'VWSAPASTSMSRV01:1500'. The TCP/IP error is 'Unknown error' (errno = 10061).
06/23/2017 13:24:25 ANS9020E Could not establish a session with a TSM server or client agent.  The TSM return code is -50.
06/23/2017 13:24:31 ANS5216E Could not establish a TCP/IP connection with address 'VWSAPASTSMSRV01:1500'. The TCP/IP error is 'Unknown error' (errno = 10061).
06/23/2017 13:24:31 ANS9020E Could not establish a session with a TSM server or client agent.  The TSM return code is -50.

i think it could be the 1500 port, but  there is no firewall between server and client.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Experts,

We are running nightly onsite backups for our server (DC + File Server) using Veeam, and I want to store an offsite copy of these backups on AWS. What AWS Service should i go for? Do you have any documentation or KBs i can refer to for setting this up?

We have a user that uses winzip 9 and wanted to know if that apps one can disable the error messages that keeps popping up on certain files being extracted (see pix below for sample).

 
Is  there a way to disable this message and leave the winzip extracting without any interruption?

If winzip cannot  do it, any other apps that can read a winzip file and extract it uninterrupted?

hi everyone:

im taking a backup on a wintel 2008 server and the dsm.sched show me this:

07/04/2017 08:56:08 Successful incremental backup of '\\vxxxxxxxxxx\d$'

07/04/2017 08:56:23 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects inspected:      105,123
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects backed up:          520
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects updated:              0
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects rebound:              0
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects deleted:              0
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects expired:            487
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of objects failed:               7
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of subfile objects:              0
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of bytes inspected:           1.47 TB
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total number of bytes transferred:       404.22 GB
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Data transfer time:                    5,091.32 sec
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Network data transfer rate:           83,251.54 KB/sec
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Aggregate data transfer rate:         15,834.58 KB/sec
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Objects compressed by:                        0%
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Total data reduction ratio:               73.27%
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Subfile objects reduced by:                   0%
07/04/2017 08:56:23 Elapsed processing time:               07:26:08
07/04/2017 08:56:23 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END
07/04/2017 08:56:23 --- …

Last  night we left running a "Create a system image" in our Windows 10 computer (see  below pix).


This morning we went to disconnect the USB external drive and found that folders were created but no data.  We ran WinDirStat to see the folders contents and only folders were created (see pix below).

 
With the  above said, we have been creating image of various  computers prior last night; when checking their contents, we noticed  same problem,  folders created but  no image data found.

Please advice on,

• Why the windows backup didn't create the actual image data (if possible)?

• How to properly create an image of Windows 10 computer?

I am looking for a command that will tell me in the whole host if I have the rights to the entire file system , if any files have changed in the last one minute or 5 minutes

I thank you very very much in advance and will reward pts right away !!!!